Edmund Burke: “Strong passion under the direction of a feeble reason feeds a low fever, which serves only to destroy the body that…”

An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.

But the course of succession is the healthy habit of the British Constitution.

Unquestionably there was at the Revolution, in the person of King William, a small and a temporary deviation from the strict order of a regular hereditary succession; but it is against all genuine principles of jurisprudence to draw a…

Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself to misrule and excess, is tempered with an awful gravity.